How to 準備する for the next flood: Buy some rubber gloves and wet wipes

by DAVID DERBYSHIRE

Last updated at 23:49 17 December 2007


Floods will become so ありふれた that families should 準備する 緊急 道具s to を取り引きする them, によれば a 報告(する)/憶測.

It 警告するd Britain was woefully unprepared for the deluges that (人命などを)奪う,主張するd 13 lives last summer, 難破させるd 48,000 homes and 原因(となる)d 損失 価値(がある) billions.

The 報告(する)/憶測 of a 政府-(売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限d 独立した・無所属 調査 said flood planning should be given the same 優先 as テロ行為 and flu.

Hundreds of 居住(者)s are still in 一時的な 避難所s に引き続いて the floods which struck Yorkshire and the Midlands in June and the Thames Valley and West of England in July.

力/強力にする and water 供給(する)s were lost, eight motorways の近くにd and large parts of five 郡s and four cities brought to a 行き詰まり.

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The Pitt Review said the 政府, town halls and 緊急 services should have been better 用意が出来ている and that householders should take more 責任/義務 for 保護するing themselves.

A 4半期/4分の1 of those who got a flood 警告 in the summer did nothing while others 用意が出来ている sandbags "which 証明するd to be little value".

Instead, they should have been moving 所有/入手s and 文書s to safety, the 報告(する)/憶測 said.

Sir Michael Pitt, the 報告(する)/憶測's author and chairman of the South West 戦略の Health 当局, said all homes should have an 緊急 道具 含む/封じ込めるing 重要な 文書s, a たいまつ, 無線で通信する, 一面に覆う/毛布, 動きやすい phone, rubber gloves, wet wipes and first 援助(する) 道具.

He also called for a (選挙などの)運動をする to encourage more families to take out home 保険.

The review 名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる)d a 一連の failings which made the 災害 worse - 含むing little 準備 for flooding in 都市の areas and the 欠如(する) of 救助(する) boats.

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公共事業(料金)/有用性 companies were ill-用意が出来ている for the biggest loss of "批判的な 組織/基盤/下部構造" since the Second World War, it 追加するd.

Other 推薦s 含む:

? 創造 of a 国家の flood 緊急 計画(する).

? Flood 危険 (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) to be 含むd in Home (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) Packs.

? Better 天候 and flood 予測(する)ing.

? New buildings in flood-危険 areas are made "flood resilient".

? 環境 機関 to sort out 混乱 over 一時的な flood defences and to have a greater 役割 in 保護するing against surface flash floods.

Sir Michael said: "I want to raise up the 優先 and importance of flood-危険 管理/経営 国家的に and 地元で.

"We should put this on a par with things like テロ行為 危険 or influenza pandemic where we already have 国家の 枠組みs in place to を取り引きする these sorts of 緊急s."

The 報告(する)/憶測 said the floods could not be せいにするd 直接/まっすぐに to 気候 change but were a taster of the more extreme 天候 ahead.

環境 長官 Hilary Benn said he 受託するd the major 結論s put 今後 by the 文書.

一方/合間, a 報告(する)/憶測 from the ありふれたs 委員会 of Public Accounts criticised the 環境 機関 for failing to 改善する flood defences にもかかわらず 増加するd 基金ing.

Some defences were in poor 条件, while half-危険 flood defences were not in "的 条件," said Edward Leigh, the 委員会's Tory chairman.

The 政府 has 約束d to 増加する 基金ing for flood 予防 from £600million to £ 800million but the cash does not become fully 利用できる until 2010/11.

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How to prepare for the next flood

How to prepare for the next flood

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